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Cathy Downs

Acting Born Mar 3, 1926 Port Jefferson, Long Island, New York, USA 24 credits

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Cathy Downs (March 3, 1924 – December 8, 1976) was an American film actress.

Born in Port Jefferson, New York, Downs began her film career with a small role in The Dolly Sisters (1945) and the following year played the title role in My Darling Clementine. Following the success of the latter, Downs was cast in a prison drama For You I Die (1947), an Abbott & Costello comedy The Noose Hangs High, and several western films.

By the beginning of the 1950s she was appearing in lower budget films, including some science fiction films, with one of these films Missile to the Moon marking her last screen appearance, in 1958.

She worked sporadically in television during the 1960s but was unemployed for several years before her death in Los Angeles, California.

Downs has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Television, at 6646 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Known for

Perry Mason

as Millicent Barton aka Millicent Barton Tolliver

Bat Masterson

as Amelia Roberts

Bat Masterson

as Julie Giles
Film

One Hundred Steps

2000
Film

My Darling Clementine

as Clementine Carter

Full filmography

  • Perry Mason (1957) as Millicent Barton aka Millicent Barton Tolliver
  • Bat Masterson (1958) as Amelia Roberts
  • Bat Masterson (1958) as Julie Giles
  • Surfside 6 (1960)
  • Matinee Theater (1955)
  • The Millionaire (1955) as Dr. Eve Saunders
  • Racket Squad (1951)
  • Mr. & Mrs. North (1952)
  • The Whistler (1954)
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) as Calanthe
  • My Darling Clementine (1946) as Clementine Carter
  • The Joe Palooka Story (1954) as Ann Howe
  • The Joe Palooka Story (1954) as Anne Howe
  • The Dark Corner (1946) as Mari Cathcart
  • The Sundowners (1950) as Kathleen Boyce
  • Bandits of the West (1953) as Joanne Collier
  • The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) as Carol Forrest
  • Massacre River (1949) as Kitty Reid
  • The Noose Hangs High (1948) as Carol Blair
  • Short Grass (1950) as Sharon Lynch
  • The She-Creature (1956) as Dorothy Chappel
  • Panhandle (1948) as Jean 'Dusty' Stewart
  • Missile to the Moon (1958) as June Saxton
  • Triple Cross (1951) as Anne Howe